"graham" > wrote in message
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> On 2018-03-21 11:28 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "dsi1" wrote in message
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>> On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 5:57:38 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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>>> If younger kids stray from the front of the house parents are charged
>>> with neglect. In MD, police investigated because kids walk home from
>>> school
>>> http://wjla.com/news/local/silver-sp...e-alone-112094
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>>> When I was 8, I could go to my grandparents house by taking a bus,
>>> train, then trolley. Today my parents would be arrested for letting me
>>> go. At 10 we rode our bikes across a mile long bridge to another state
>>> to visit a former class mate.
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>> Things have certainly changed in a few decades. What's common in Japan
>> would terrify most Westerners.
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkVvXVDs5aI
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>> My life was pretty much the same as Ed describes when I was young. My
>> boys were allowed much more freedom in that way then my daughter was.
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>> I doubt I would see that now.
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> When I was young, not many people had cars so village communities like
> mine were somewhat "enclosed". The village had a shoe shop and a shoe
> repairer as well as a bicycle repair shop.

Within one block of my house we had a grocery store, supermarket, drug
store, plant nursery that also sold candle making supplies, coin op laundry,
7-11, KFC, dry cleaners, hair salon, gas station, dentist office and a
restaurant. There was another restaurant and library a block further. If you
were to go a little further but still less than a mile away, there were all
sorts of things. Two five and dimes, a department store, more supermarkets,
another drugstore, ice cream shop, donut shop, more restaurants and other
businesses. Also two movie theaters. I was quite spoiled.